Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 16
Laughter can be friendly, not mean; people often like you more if you can laugh at yourself.
Who acts: Laughter, people, you · What happens: be, not be, like, laugh · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laughter, people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friendly | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 friendly | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 friendly | cop |
| 4 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mean | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mean | advmod |
| 7 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friendly | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 like | nsubj |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 like | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 friendly | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 like | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 like | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 laugh | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 laugh | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 laugh | aux |
| 17 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 like | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 yourself | case |
| 19 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 laugh | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 friendly | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | Laughter | friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | Laughter not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | like | present | people | you | often property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||
| 4 | laugh a condition, not said to happen | can | you | at yourself | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:16.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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